Cassondra Windwalker

Cassondra Windwalker writes gothic fiction, psychological suspense, poetry, and speculative stories. Hold My Place, published by Black Spot Books in 2022, follows librarian Sigrun after she begins a relationship with Edgar Leyward and enters a house shadowed by the early deaths of his previous partners. Letters from those women erode the boundary between family history, obsession, and possible haunting. Its form joins a contemporary relationship to the enclosed atmosphere and inherited secrets of gothic fiction. Windwalker earned a Bachelor of Arts in Letters from the University of Oklahoma and has published novels and poetry across several genres. Her books include Idle Hands, Bury the Lead, and Preacher Sam, while later work continues her interest in memory, coercion, and uncertain narrators. Hold My Place is especially concerned with how reading and recovered documents reshape Sigrun’s understanding of the household, making her work as a librarian relevant to both the mystery and the novel’s structure.